Ah, David Icke, the prophet of our troubled times - perhaps I've gone too far already. Better insert the standard David Icke disclaimer, which I think this whole post will actually be: how to start . . . okay, I love science fiction. A favorite movie of mine is John Carpenter's They Live, a film that David Icke mentions favorably (sorry, no reference here, saw him say it somewhere on YouTube) since it is in large part his entire message. If you don't know about David's story check it out (http://www.davidicke.com/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke or a very good little documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQzOZmJykk). It boils down to a reptilian alien race that has secretly (or not so secretly) been controlling us humans since prehistory - this is David's story and except for the ancient part it is the story of They Live. Far out, I know.
If you watch any of his YouTube lectures (like 6 hours for one!) he starts with what I think and what most progressive, left-leaning or even libertarian people would have to say are pretty reasonable claims. He talks of corporate control of what we eat, what watch and what we think. His view of the path to the recent Iraq War are not far fetched: a crisis occurs (he says created) like 9/11; a plan (finding and eliminating weapons of mass destruction purportedly in Iraq) is then put into action and elite, monied interests get what they want. Weapons must be manufactured and sold to detect weapons of mass destruction. The flow of oil from Iraq has been secured.
Then the edge of the deep end is reached and David Icke jumps off. What makes his lectures easy to watch is his self-effacing humor and candor - he admits his claims sound crazy. So here you go: the Bush family is genetically different than most people. The ancient reptilian race works through them to accomplish goals (in which global elites actually prove to be simply pawns).
Being motivated by money so much that you accept death on the part of some that come under the sway of your practices is bad. Even if this is under the pretences of a free market. However, defining when this becomes evil is tricky. Human nature (yes, I believe in a bit of it, quite a bit really) demands acting in one's self interest and the interest of one's family. At a distance evil is easy to ignore or make jokes about to the point it grows banal (i.e. sweatshops or third world starvation). And with an ideal in one's head such as the free market one goes forward in life with durable conviction. I would say these account for the state of the world now.
David Icke doesn't think so, though. For him the evil is too great and is part of a plan. So evil are the Bush family and other elites of the reptilian ilk that they willfully commit pederasty in the rituals that they perform. Yeah, I know. Harsh claims. I would say they they quite possibly are fanciful too.
For David Icke the sins of the elite become manifest. Evil cannot be something arrived at through quirks of human indecency. This tangible evil may then become examined and catalogued and, therefore, made comprehensible. Perhaps, given the reptilian's nonexistence, this is what David is trying to do. Just saying what they do is evil is not enough. This is then the realm of metaphor or hyperbole, normal language not forceful or persuasive enough
As a character I admire David Icke's audacity. True or false and if false if knowing or unknowing, his act of presenting his ideas is an act of bravery. Great fodder for one coming up for sci-fi story ideas at least. A unique figure. He uses critique of the realpolitik world we live in and then amps it up to (at least) a metaphorical metacritique. He is singular in having one foot firmly planted in reality and the other so firmly planted in, well, something else.
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